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title: "Accessibility Checker Rule Help: Rpt_Aria_MultipleContentinfoLandmarks_Implicit"
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import "../../../styles/ToolHelp.scss"
import { CodeSnippet, Tag } from "carbon-components-react";

<div className="toolHelp">
<Row>
<Column colLg={16} colMd={8} colSm={4} className="toolHead">

### Multiple elements with the  `"contentinfo"` role do not have unique labels

<div id="locLevel"></div>

All elements with `"contentinfo"` role must have unique labels

</Column>
</Row>
<Row>
<Column colLg={11} colMd={5} colSm={4} className="toolMain">

### Why is this important?
When there are multiple elements with a `"contentinfo"` role, they must have unique labels that clearly describe each region's content. This includes HTML `<footer>` elements when their context is a `<body>` element. These labels help people using assistive technologies to quickly find and navigate to each region.

<div id="locSnippet"></div>

### What to do

* For each element with a `"contentinfo"` role, either set the value of the `aria-labelledby` attribute to the `id` value of any visible text that appropriately and uniquely describes that region's content;
* OR, use the `aria-label` attribute to add an invisible, unique, non-empty label to each element with the `"contentinfo"` role.

For example:

<CodeSnippet type="multi" light={true}>&lt;div role="contentinfo" aria-label="Weather portlet"&gt;
...
&lt;/div&gt;
    
&lt;footer aria-label="Site copyright, privacy and accessibility information"&gt;
...
&lt;/footer&gt;</CodeSnippet>

</Column>
<Column colLg={5} colMd={3} colSm={4} className="toolLeft">

### About this requirement

[IBM 2.4.1 Bypass Blocks](http://www.ibm.com/able/guidelines/ci162/bypass_blocks.html)
[W3C WCAG 2.1 technique ARIA6](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/aria/ARIA6)
[W3C WCAG 2.1 technique ARIA13](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/aria/ARIA13)

### Who does this affect?

* Blind people using screen readers

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</Row>
</div>

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